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Revelations

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The title piqued my interest. Most of the authors listed in the contents, I had heard of or read before. My favorites in the group are "If I Should Die Before I Wake", which involves a small town dealing with the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and "Whatever", which deals with a cultist society. Both sent chills. The rest of the stories provoked a good response in me, but those two continue to stand out. Clive Barker's wraparounds were very good. Be sure to add this to your collection.

A collection of powerful, chilling stories. Much effort has gone into the language and tone of these works, and the book is dense with atmoshere and insight.

Thank God the authors eschew the typical horror trope, the monster. What we get instead are human beings struggling in a dangerous world during a dangerous century, many of their lives marred (never blessed) with glimpses of the worst catastrophes still to come. Only "Dismantling Fortress Architecture" fails to measure up to the standards set by the other stories.

This is an excellent anthology.

Well, I finished revelations ed by Douglas E. Winter. I appreciate what he tried to do here, a novel of short stories, and it was a good idea, but it just seemed to fall flat. I could never quite see the connection between the stories. But it fell short. And I was surprised that this wasn't that great, because Winter put together _Prime Evil_, which I truly enjoyed.

Clive Barker's wraparound story wasn't very good. It had some interesting parts to it, but really, not his best work. Landsdale, who wrote the first story (each story took place in a different decade...but I'm not sure when barker's story took place) wasn't too bad. David Morrell's story I'd say the same about. F. Paul Wilson's story about Nazi Germany was excellent. Probably the best in the book. Poppy Z. Brite and Christa Faust's story was a good one. charles grant's story wasn't bad. Whitley Streiber wrote an unintelligable, very bad story for the 50s decade. I never really caught on to what was happening. Elizabeth massie wrote what would be the second best story in the book, it too was excellent. Matheson, who I know is a good writer wrote some garbage for the book...it sucked. David J. Schow and Craig Spector wrote a story for this book that was okay, it was almost good, but something is missing from it (hmm...I wonder if that'd be Skipp). And since at least half of this book was bad, I was worried when I got to the last decade/story which was written by ramsey campbell. Luckily he wrote a pretty good story.

Wow, what a book! I literally wet my pants. I mean, the urine was coming down in barrels! Eww, it was disgusting. Oh, yeah, the book was pretty good, too. Love that Clive Barker kid.